http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/4232/1/
Laxman
> > I have not broken anything yet but I am about to, so I > > figured I would ask the > > question first. > > > I am adding a disk to my system. The disk may have been > > previously formatted > > with NT. I checked /etc/sysconfig/hwconf and the disk is there. > > > Do I first do a mount /dev/sdb3 /newdisk > > Then run mkfs > > Or do I mkfs and then mount it.
> You have to mount it first.... You can't access an unmounted disk.
If the disk has been formated with NT and he want's a new filesystem, he has to 'mkfs' the disk first... He is - hopefully - not going to mount a NT-formated disk!!!
And please, do not format a disk using 'mkfs' while it is mounted.... :(
-Oliver
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